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    Official Documents of the Australian Flying Corps
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Combats In The Air

Squadron : Naval Squadron No.8
Type and No. of Aeroplane : Sop. Triplane. 5469.
Armament : Vickers Synchronised.
Pilot : Flight Sub Lieut R.A.Little, DSC.
Observer : -
Locality : NOYELLES.- LENS.
Date : 9/4/1917
Time : 12. noon.
Duty : Offensive Patrol.
Height : 12,000 ft.

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Remarks on Hostile Aircraft:-Type, armament, speed, etc

Single seater Halberstadt.




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Narrative
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At 15,000 ft, I observed a H.A. at about 13,000 ft. I dived at him and fired about 160 rounds at him. I saw tracers hit him he then side slipped and nose dived I watched him go down to about 1,00 ft off the ground when the clouds passed over him, he was still nose-diving when I last saw him.








 



(sgd)R.A. LITTLE
FLIGHT SUB LIEUTENANT.








G.R. Bromet
SQUADRON COMMANDER R.N.



    This victory is recorded in "Above the Trenches" as victory number 6, Little's second on the Sopwith Triplane. The book marks the downed aircraft as an Halberstadt DII and the victory as an OOC.